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One of the most vulnerable houses in the metro area is teetering on the edge of a flood. “It’s a little precarious,” said Newport city administrator Deb Hill, referring to the one remaining house in the city’s flood zone. She can’t predict when the Mississippi River may hit the house, but she said she is alarmed at flood forecasts for...

James "Jim" Broede, 83, a Pioneer Press reporter for 29 years, died March 5 after falling off the roof of his Forest Lake home while raking snow. His neighbor and good friend, Richard Leepart, said he learned of Broede's death when local police knocked on his door the next day. Another neighbor had asked police for a welfare check after...

Acknowledging that there’s already a sizable gap in his budget, Metro Transit’s new general manager is touting a series of new initiatives to improve the “rider experience” on trains and buses -- from focused enforcement to more daytime cleaning to an “anti-harassment” campaign promoting random acts of kindness. Under its new police chief, Metro Transit has already stepped up fare...

Enrollment fell for a seventh consecutive year in 2018, yet Minnesota State colleges and universities made progress on several markers of financial health. Just four of the public higher education system’s 37 schools scored low enough on a budgetary stress test to trigger a financial plan with the system office in St. Paul. That’s down from 10 the year before...

It was nearly 7 p.m. Friday night and Brett Cummings, an insurance agent in Rosemount, had not been home for dinner. He'd been busy meeting clients whose basements had flooded from the recent rain and snow melt. "We had almost 300 claims in one day," he said of the calls statewide received by Farmers Insurance Group. It was such a...